Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am compelled to take this view by the early results of computer processing of language text . |
| 2 | ‘ It may start out like that — I 'm going to take this knife because when I produce it they 're going to crap themselves and run away . |
| 3 | So I am going to go this way round , right , and I 'm going to take some doughnuts . |
| 4 | Because I 'm going to take some measures to … speed things up . |
| 5 | erm , er and I 'm have to take some time over this , so I think erm in the circumstances the better thing to do would be to adjourn this case till Monday morning and hope that Mr can so arrange his affairs to address me at half past ten on that day , er with Mr and with erm , whatever rights he has to erm deal with matters of this , come up a fresh in reply and to finish off , I 'm gon na leave it like that , a very much , and as I say as far , as far as tomorrow 's concerned that 's er not a difficulty with erm , either Mr informs me which is unlikely or I can , at least get a , make a start , er on the other aspects of the judgement , alright then half past ten on Monday morning |
| 6 | ‘ I was asked to take two horses from Ireland and this was one of them . |
| 7 | As a Scot , I was expected to take New Year 's Day as leave rather than Christmas . |
| 8 | ‘ But I told him I was going to take legal action , ’ she says . |
| 9 | And of course they go up here beautiful and I was going to take this apple and they 're all gon na fall and I got to that , Jesus it just about . |
| 10 | The relocation will be in three phases , each of which is planned to take eighteen months . |
| 11 | In response , the Lord Chancellor established a review of the financial conditions for legal aid in November 1989 , which is expected to take three years to complete its work . |
| 12 | Nobody is going to take that place . |
| 13 | Following the Supreme 's Court 's endorsement of Noonan 's ruling , the case was due to return to the Appeals Court to be reviewed by a panel of judges , a process which was expected to take several months . |
| 14 | Training schemes are being used to keep a pool of potential workers with low expectations who are forced to take any job that might come along , no matter what the conditions or level of pay . |
| 15 | Men are notoriously " macho " and have few scruples about abandoning their women , who are left to take sole responsibility for their children . |
| 16 | But I ca n't accept the argument that because you make provision to deal by law as well as by practice with the situations where things have got to that point in order to safeguard children , that you are thereby saying that you are going to take more children from their parents ! |
| 17 | You are expected to take adequate steps to protect yourself . |
| 18 | By God , you 're going to take that back or you 're going to get out of this house . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I hear you 're going to take that house in Italy . ’ |
| 20 | You wo n't find you 're going to take much time doing some of these . |
| 21 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 22 | He has never admitted an awareness of Earth Mysteries as an inspiration for his work , but the walking of straight lines echoes not only leys but also the task of the Gaia Programme monitors who were required to take regular readings on straight lines out from ancient sites . |
| 23 | It may be fair enough for those people who retire at 60 or 65 , but consider those who were forced to take early retirement or who were sick and have now recovered . ’ |
| 24 | Maybe you were tempted to take handheld shots on telephoto — perhaps with a very good reason , lions in a zoo are not very approachable and often the only way to shoot them in close-up is with a long-focus lens . |
| 25 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 26 | Your work itself is going to take more time than that . |
| 27 | That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks . |
| 28 | But in 1976 the recruitment market was dire and she was advised to take any job offered . |
| 29 | And when it came to moving them around , who was going to take any notice of vehicles coming and going from a hospital ? |
| 30 | ‘ Benjamin Barnett and Dave Matthews compliment each other well up front , and we are looking to take 12 points from the last eight games and finish mid-table , ’ he said yesterday . |